Abstract

For AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), the voltage and current waveforms at CW large-signal operation at 5 GHz have been reconstructed from experimental magnitude and phase information on fundamental and higher harmonics of transmitted and reflected signals. To compare with the DC behaviour, the clipped waveforms have accurately been analysed to recover the dynamic output characteristics in view of dispersion effects related to self-heating. In conjunction with small-signal S-parameter data, the large-signal experimental results have been used in an attempt to apply a HEMT large-signal model, showing satisfactory agreement of simulated and measured characteristics at least in regions where self-heating is not much pronounced.